Process of maintaining hair in position



t atentecl Apr. 20, 1926.

rssrua PAUL S. QUAST, 0]! LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

PROCESS OF MAINTAINING HAIR IN POSITION.

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1 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL S. QUAsT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Process of lVIaintaining Hair in Position, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to processes according to which hair may be treated to prevent it from shifting or moving lengthwise when disposed or mounted within or in relation to some other material for commercial use.

One of the objects of this invention is to treat hair so as to prevent it from shifting or moving within so-called hair-cloth as used in clothing.

Another object is to treat hair so that it may be maintained in a certain position so that it will not shift or move after once placed in such a position.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claims.

Hair-cloth, above referred to, is commonly used in all kinds of clothing as a padding or reinforcement or for otherwise facilitating a desired shaping of clothing.

It is, however, well known that hair tends to shift or move within clothing and eventually work itself out of hair-cloth inserted in such clothing. lVhile moving out of clothing, hair tends to irritate the body on which such clothing is worn and is therefore to some extent disagreeable to the wearer of the clothing.

I am aware of the fact that hair-cloth is being used and commonly available on the market of different grades and qualities, and that the better qualities are less liable to allow or cause a losing of hair than the in ferior qualities. However, some hair will remove or move out.

To prevent a moving or shifting of hair when disposed in clothing, that is commonly within hair-cloth disposed or mounted within clothing, this invention has for its principal feature a process or method of dulling the hair-ends so that the hair is practically dispossessed of its ability to penetrate clothing. By experiments it has been found that one way of accomplishing this result is by burning or singeing the ends of the hair. This can easily be accomplished by first cutting hair-cloth to a certain desired shape in which it is to be used in clothing and then burning or singeing the edges of such a cut Application filed October 23, 1924. Serial No. 745,523.

or shaped piece of hair-cloth and thereby burning or singeing the ends protruding from such edges of the hair-cloth. When so treated the hair-cloth is merely placed at the proper point within the clothing and sewed ininthe usual mannerb Hair so treated and mountedwithin cloth ing is practically made non-shiftable or non movable so that the disagreeable protruding of hair-ends from clothing may be prevented.

Of course, hair is used in many dilferent articles for many different purposes and mounted in various forms and holders, as in brushes, but it will easily be understood that, by a singeing or burning of the hairends before being mounted in a certain holder the hair will be more firmly held in any holder or other mounting.

The hair-ends may also be dulled by other treatments, as by being held in bunches and then subjected to blows or strokes at its ends.

The main reason that hair is so easily worked out from some qualities of haircloth may be said to be that it is practically impossible to cut hair with scissors squarely to its longitudinal axis since hair tends to slip out from between the cutting edges of scissors and at the moment of being finally out, such hair may be said to have come to an inclined osition in relation to the cutting edges of the scissors so that the hair is actually out with sharp points at its ends instead of squarely.

Another slightly modified form of treating hair according to this invention is there fore to produce dull ends when severing or cutting hair whether in hair-cloth or mounted or in conjunction with other material. Hair may be held firmly and close to the point where a cut is to be made before actually being cut so as to assure a square cut.

Whether burned, or singed, or subjected to blows on the ends, or otherwise similarly treated, the principal point of this invention is to produce dull ends on hair.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. The process of treating hair which consists in mounting the hair, and enlarging the hair-ends protruding from the mountin for holding the hair against lengthwise shifting when embedded in a holding medium.

2. The process of treating hair which consists in mounting the hair, and singeing or burning the hair-ends protruding from the mounting so as to form enlarged terminations for holding the hair against lengthwise shifting.

3. The process of treating hair which consists in mounting the hair,cutting the hair a short distance beyond the mounting, and then enlarging the ends of the hair protruding from the mounting for holding the hair against lengthwise shifting.

4:. The process of treating hair cloth Which consists in cutting the cloth to a desired form and then enlarging the ends of the hair protruding from the edges of the cloth for holding the hair in the cloth against lengthwise shifting.

5. The process of treating hair-cloth to be used in clothing Which consists in cutting the cloth to a desired shape, then singeing the edges of the cloth and thereby the ends of the hair protruding from the edges of the cloth;

6. The process of making clothing which consists in producing certain pieces of haircloth of desired shape,.then singeing the edges ofthe shaped cloth and thereby the ends of the hair protruding from its edges, and then mounting this shaped and treated hair-cloth within clothing.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention 1 have signed my name.

PAUL S. QUAST. 

